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German court bans LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals (stackdiary.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Eikichi@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Who really does hope something from the "DnT"

While the ruling against LinkedIn is a welcome development, I'm skeptical it will truly move the needle on respecting user privacy. Do Not Track has been around for years, yet sites continue ignoring it without consequence. This case may set a precedent, but it's one isolated judgment in Germany.

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[-] otl@lemmy.sdf.org 74 points 8 months ago

Ironically this site serves koko analytics, which now ignores the Do Not Track header (as per Mozilla's recommendation, mind you). See commit 6890f3c.

Thankfully uBlock Origin blocks loading the scripts.

[-] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 34 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[-] otl@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 8 months ago

Honestly, DNT as it's implemented in browsers today is not a sufficient solution

I've come to the same conclusion (blogged about it here https://www.srcbeat.com/2023/11/linkedin-do-not-track/) after updating myself on where it's all at.

I also think about pop-ups back in the 90s/00s. Imagine if browsers sent a "No-Popups" header (or something) back then. I doubt we would have seen any change in company behaviour. Instead, it took something like Firefox to implement pop-up blocking by default (https://lwn.net/Articles/130792/).

[-] Eikichi@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Lmao, thanks for the share XD

[-] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

We could certainly un-depricate it. It's not like we need to reinvent the wheel here as a society on this.

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